Original Records usually get it right.The problems arise when someone state's something that is incorrect and other people copy it into other publications.

Having said that, Lloyds don't always get it right, but usually because they have not been supplied with the correct information in the first place.

Best of luck!

Like myself and others, you will have found it toatlly frustrating that there can be so many errors and so many incorrect memories that make facts out of fiction. In a Doxford promotional leaflet outputs for up to a ten cylinder P type engine had been listed. There was never anything bigger than a 6 cylinder P type built, but in the mind of one fellow, because it had been listed it had existed. It was aslo the case that he had pictures of the Doxford submarine engine and it was to be a single cylinder design!!! He had the photo to prove it. What he had was a photo of the prototype single single cylinder demonstration engine that had to be sent to the Admiralty for aproval. It never was approved, but the proposal was in fact for a four engine installation with six cylinders each. It was impossible to wrest the single cylinder submarine engine concept from his mind. Worse, he was a Doxford Engines employee and I wouldn't dare reveal where he worked, suffice to say he used pencils and tee squares on large drawing boards at his daily work. Still working and living 40 miles from Newcastle, Tyne and Wear Archives visits are not easy to accomodate for me. It will be much easier if we can persuade the Archives to open all day Saturday and Sunday when a lot more peole are off work and could go more easily, even dropping "her" off at Metro for the day. Alternatively they could put everything on line and we cpould access it from home. Conventional wisdom out in the sticks is "It's better to keep your mouth shut and let people believe you are an idot rather than open your mouth and prove them right." Or keep your fingers of keyboards to be more modern. I keep thinking that I have learned that lesson but often find I have some way to go. I do apologise for any inaccuracies that may crop up in my posts and welcome every correction that peole are decent enough to send.